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    1 month ago

    This isn’t really oniony… Most popular dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive, meaning they document the way language is actually being used, rather than dictating how it should be used. All words or phrases that gain relatively widespread adoption end up in the dictionary, along with tracking the evolution of words as they gain new meanings.